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repeating myself a bit here but trump can issue an executive order but that doesn’t necessarily mean shit if it doesn’t have a firm statutory basis. if congress lays out in law what the duties of a particular official are, then no, the president can’t decide those duties are something else

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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

submitted 8 days ago • 154 comments

Do not mess with librarians. They let complete strangers borrow their books. For a living. Even the hardcovers. They are so much stronger than you know.

submitted 11 days ago • 165 comments

Fuck, when the object of my deepest political enmity, Mitch McConnell, is on the right side of history over unqualified power grabs, I can hear the band playing as the Titanic sinks.

submitted 12 days ago • 314 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 12 days ago • 309 comments

The YA publishing crisis isn’t that we need more mature YA books or a Mature YA label, it’s that we need more YA books published for teens of all ages and less YA books published as YA but also wanting to reach Adult audiences. Adults have plenty of books published for them.

submitted 12 days ago • 23 comments

One way to resist? Read more, use the library, buy from local bookstores, post reviews, talk about the books you're reading, read banned books. Anything to do with reading, and books, they seem to hate. Stay educated, and continue reading. #BookSky #ReadBannedBooks #ReadMoreBooks

submitted 29 days ago • 10 comments

Are you or your work in TB affected by recent US govt actions? Click 👇 to systematically document these experiences that waste US taxpayer $: stop-work, aid freezes, expiring medications, unrealized waivers of exception. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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🔴CALLING ALL ARTISTS🔴 Christie's NYC is planning an AI art auction expected to bring in over $600,000 to creators who've used models trained on copyrighted material from non-consenting artists. If you object to this, please sign and share this open letter. openletter.earth/cancel-the-c...

submitted 17 days ago • 89 comments

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submitted 13 days ago • 388 comments

"The Goose Girl" is a deeply weird fairy tale, involving identity theft and horrific punishment--let's consider some intriguing fresh takes on the Grimms' grisly original and its archaic assumptions! reactormag.com/stolen-ident...

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The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

submitted 13 days ago • 56 comments

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)

submitted 12 days ago • 335 comments

17 States are suing to throw out Section 504 protections for people with disabilities. You can help fight back. The link below includes sample letters and tools to take action. dredf.org/protect-504/

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

People who are telling you that there's a lot of fraud in Medicaid are lying to you in order to try to convince you to support taking healthcare away from children on dialysis. Because the only way to convince enough normal people to harm disabled children is by lying.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.

submitted 13 days ago • 182 comments

This is a really nice, simple distillation of the vital role NOAA and the NWS play and how private companies cannot replace what they do.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

submitted 14 days ago • 492 comments

Recent executive actions from the current administration undo crucial ocean conservation measures. ⬇️🧵⬇️ bit.ly/42Kyxth

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

A “stand up to hate” ad on Fox. Spectacular gaslighting

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Taking a break from school work to get started on this! @kaysynclaire.bsky.social #booksky

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US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

submitted 17 days ago • 777 comments

Day 7. Black people make up less than 5% of the publishing industry, while our culture & our suffering remain the backbone of western art. Imagine what the industry could be if we had an equal say in our own stories. Consider investing in my imprint for $5 or $12. Leftunreadbooks.binderybooks.com

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

The hate for Black people really affects everyone.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

This is your reminder to USE YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY THERE'S BOOKS THERE AND MOVIES MUSIC PUBLIC COMPUTERS W/ INTERNET IT'S ALSO FREE

submitted 18 days ago • 146 comments

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies theonion.com/guy-on-...

submitted 19 days ago • 196 comments

the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!

submitted 18 days ago • 578 comments

In 2016, Dr. Carla Hayden was sworn in as the 14th Librarian of Congress, our National Librarian. She is the first woman and first African American to lead the national library. She is library joy! Dr. Carla Hayden has always sought to bring the wonders of the library into everyone’s lives. 🧵 1/6

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

This isn’t the most eloquent way to express it, but thank fuck for the arts Thank fuck for books Thank fuck for drawing and painting Thank fuck for movies Thank fuck for video games Thank fuck for all the creatives out there who will help us cope the next 4 years whether by escapism or a rally cry

submitted 19 days ago • 80 comments

i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that actual racism and discrimination divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist

submitted 18 days ago • 507 comments

THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS A DEPARTMENT CREATED BY STATUTE; IT CANNOT BE ELIMINATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! EXECUTIVE ORDERS CANNOT REPEAL STATUTES! JUST LIKE DEPARTMENTS CANNOT BE CREATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! she shouts into the void

submitted 20 days ago • 432 comments

(Checks to see if my publisher is part of this suit) FUCK YEAH MACMILLAN GET THESE MOFOS www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

submitted 19 days ago • 167 comments

here are some queer horro book recs for ya #horrorbooksky #horrorbookrecs #booksky #queerbooks #queerbooksky

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

They wrote and published Project 2025 detailing everything they were going to do and democrats are acting surprised by the last 2 weeks as though the playbook didn’t exist.

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

Last night Kendrick won as many Grammys for Not Like Us as Drake has won in his entire career. I would simply never show my face in public again

submitted 21 days ago • 22 comments

queer sci fi book recs #booksky #queerbooksky #queerbooks #scifibooksky

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

i love that in addition to everything else, elon musk is the dumbest asshole on the planet

submitted 21 days ago • 1711 comments

go.bsky.app/ALbjGXE Here is a list of Indigenous writers and book industry folks. Follow and share.

submitted 21 days ago • 15 comments

I know everyone has haters but today I discovered that Chappell Roan has haters who have chosen the "she can't sing" angle and look, I can't stand Tom Brady but you wouldn't catch me dead embarrassing myself by claiming in public that he's bad at football

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Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

submitted 21 days ago • 146 comments

Once again - Almost 90% of the fentanyl smuggled in over the border from Mexico is brought in by American citizens.

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these are some book recs for books by black authors in multiple genres. can you get bingo? #booksky #diversebooks

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Did you know? In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine. The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.

submitted 23 days ago • 913 comments

This is so difficult for me but I know we must! Here’s to some joy this weekend!

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In 2025, celebrating Black History Month isn't just about honoring Black legacies—it's an act of defiance against an administration that seeks to erase Black voices, downplay our struggles as a direct consequence of white supremacy, and deny our progress. mareas.binderybooks.com/item/nZ2IYMD...

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